> Having your URLs end with a slash is good. It looks better and shortens > your pages address. Also, in the future, you may find that not all of > your pages are going to be text/html.
While I'm ambivalent about the trailing slash (the below assumes that it's disabled), many of my urls/views have something like the following that allows me to have templates for html/xml/json/csv files and one URL can serve up whatever flavor the requester/link wants. It also has an intuitive URL interface, as it's obvious that http://example.com/path/to/foo.html should be HTML, and http://example.com/path/to/foo.xml should return XML, and http://example.com/path/to/foo.json should return a JSON object. It does require that I have N versions of each of my templates, but that's generally not been much of a problem. Most of the time I've done something like this, I just have a select few formats that I use. Given that some of our clients want their data in such varied flavors for viewing, downloading, or for programatic interaction, this gives me the flexibility to keep them all happy with minimal fuss/work on my part. :) Hope this is helpful to you too, -tim ### urls.py has a line something like ### (regexp + '(?:\.(?P<format>html|htm|xml|csv))?', 'proj.app.myview') ### views.py has something like ### CONTENT_TYPE = 'Content-Type' CONTENT_DISPOSITION = 'Content-Disposition' TEXT_PLAIN = 'text/plain' TEXT_XML = 'text/xml' TEXT_HTML = 'text/html' DISP_ATTACH = 'attachment; filename=%(filename)s' KNOWN_FORMATS = { 'csv': { CONTENT_TYPE: TEXT_PLAIN, CONTENT_DISPOSITION: DISP_ATTACH, }, 'xml': { CONTENT_TYPE: TEXT_XML, CONTENT_DISPOSITION: DISP_ATTACH, }, 'html': { CONTENT_TYPE: TEXT_HTML, }, # other formats here } HTML_FORMAT = 'html' def myview(request, ... , format=HTML_FORMAT): if format == 'htm': format = HTML_FORMAT # your code here... template_name = 'foo.%s' % format response = render_to_response(template_name, context) for header, value in KNOWN_FORMATS[format].items(): response[header] = value % { 'filename': template_name, 'date': datetime.date.today().strftime('%Y%d%m'), # add other things you might want in the filename } return response . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
